Benjamin Netanyahu: “In almost our 80 years, we've never awarded [the Israel…”

“So we decided to break a convention, too, or create a new one. And that is to award the Israel Prize, which In almost our 80 years, we've never awarded [the Israel Prize] to a non-Israeli. non Israeli. And we're going to award it this year to President Trump. This was announced formally over lunch by our Minister of education, who's responsible for the Israel Prize.” (03:32–03:37)

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